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  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Sep 09, 2003
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  Posted: Sep 09, 2003 - 06:34 AM

  I am completely confused about CMS. I have an idea for a site and initially thought I would have to fashion my own code and then I discovered various CMS like NUKE, XOOPS, DRUPAL.
  
  Whilst I image people on this site have a favourite (now let me guess), I also imagine that you have experience in looking at these systems and could give me an honest view based on my specific requirements, follows.
  
  Menu.
  1. Content will be categorised by subject and location.
  2. A menu will allow users to select content to view, by subject. One of the menu options will be all subjects.
  3. Subject catagories ,without content, will not be displayed as menu items in the menu
  4. Subject headings within the menu will indicate the number of articles in that catagory.
  
  Subject View
  1. When a subject heading from the menu is selected, relevant articles are retrieved and categorised by 'Local' (that is the subject location matches the user location), 'Region' (that is the subject region matches the users region), 'Global' and then 'Other'.
  2. If any of the geographical categories do not have content then the heading is omitted.
  3. Articles can be ordered by Editors (a user type) votes, Readers (another user type) votes and/or date posted.
  4. The subject view can view articles posted in the last 24 hours or over the last week via a FrontPage user controlled 'switch'
  
  Feedback
  Readers (and editors) can comment on articles, displayed in time order.
  Readers (and editors) can partake in a BB which is hierarchical/tiered with subject areas that match those in the menu described above.
  
  Gosh I know this is a lot to trawl through. I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me which CMS could do this.

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• markwest
  
  

  • Rank: Team Member
  • Registered: Mar 18, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 6606

  Posted: Sep 09, 2003 - 07:44 AM

  While you're right in that I (and others here) have a favorite (I won't tell you which!!!) i'll try and offer you some impartial advice. All open source solutions will probably meet 99%+ of your needs, all will have quirks, all will have annoyances. All solutions will require you to put in a degree of effort and perseverence to achieve that last one percent.
  
  All pieces of software reflect the thoughts and aims of thier authors - this is even more so in open source software where people write software out of need, interest and many other reasons.
  
  My best advice to anyone is to download the ones that you like the look of from a each ones own site and take them for a spin setting up a basic shell of your intended site. Don't focus on the look and feel but the structure - can you organise the content in the way you wish. Other aspects to check out in any solution is the support, availability of 3rd party code and the like.
  
  One useful site in your search for a solution is OpenSourceCMS.com. This site allows you to try out full installs of a wide range of solutions to help you narrow your search.
  
  Good luck with search and I hope it's PN.
  
  -Mark
  
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